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What is an Idiom?
There are a several idioms that are related to Monkeys and whilst some have negative undertones, some can be positive and complimentary.
An idiom is a phrase or an expression that should not be taken literally. For when you use an idiom in everyday language, then it has a different meaning than the basic meaning or definition of the words as found in a dictionary.
An example of this might be “Get your skates on.” If taken literally, then you are being told to put on your skates. However, this phrase, or idiom is often used by someone who is telling you hurry up.
“A Monkey on your Back.”To say that there is serious problem that you cannot forget.
“Monkey Business”
A way of saying that you should stop messing around. To settle down and stop the monkey business. “Funny as a Barrel of Monkey’s.”To be extremely funny. “Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.— Malcom De Chazal
“Make a Monkey out of.”
To make a person appear foolish or silly.
“If You Pay Peanuts, You Get Monkey’s.”
To way of saying that you only get what you pay for. If you pay silly, low wages, then you will get silly people.
A song parody about animal idioms – From Pacifica High Schools Spring Plays Festival

Some people will never even have the joy of listening to a vinyl record in their life and will only ever know the digital equivalents. What is the difference between vinyl, CD, DVD and mp3 recordings anyway?
It basically comes down the analog versus digital signals. Analog, be definition, is a continuous variable. This means that changes in frequency are produced by a smooth wave, accurately sounding out every tiny change. This is shown by the top picture in the graph below.

In order to encode a similar signal onto digital media such as a CD or DVD, there needs to be an analog to digital conversion. It does not matter how good the conversion is, there is ALWAYS a loss that occurs during this process. Even though technology gets better and better and these losses are continually reduced, it is effectively impossible (at least in the current day and age), to reproduce an analog signal exactly with digital data. The second graph in the graph above illustrates a typical digital signal. Improved technology effective allows the horizontal gaps in the signal to become shorter, as each change means more data which needs to be processed. At faster speeds and higher storage levels, these horizontal gaps are reduced. However, the signal will still not be quite the same.

Given that the human ear works at a higher resolution then our current technology, a trained ear can easily hear the difference between an analog and even a high resolution digital signal. This is exactly the reason why so many people prefer vinyl records to their digital equivalents. And we haven’t even got to the point of software level encoding. MP3’s and the like incur yet another layer of losses which further reduces the quality in audio. Listen to a vinyl record after an equivalent mp3 and if you can’t tell the difference, there might be something wrong with you! Just kidding, but there is a very clear difference. There are certain audio formats such as FLAC, which are higher resolution digital encodings, but this is when compared with a CD track. In other words, it is still digital, and still does not replicate the sound in the same way as a live performance or a vinyl record.

Now you know why a vinyl record is that much better then any digital equivalent from a scientific front. We didn’t even mention their inherited greatness just for being a vintage item, but you already knew that. We hope we help you to find some awesome vinyl records for sale to add to your collection.